Comments on: Mike’s Musings- I’m fed up and angry at Consumers Energyhttp://www.clarecountyreview.com/columns/mikes-musings/mikes-musings-im-fed-up-and-angry-at-consumers-energy/
Sat, 10 Jan 2015 16:53:52 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3By: ECNhttp://www.clarecountyreview.com/columns/mikes-musings/mikes-musings-im-fed-up-and-angry-at-consumers-energy/#comment-204
Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:41:55 +0000http://www.clarecountyreview.com/?p=7284#comment-204Bad customer service and the highest electricity rates in the Midwest have resulted since Consumers Energy and DTE Energy received a virtual monopoly of 90% of the electricity market from the MI legislature and Governor Granholm in 2008. Where MI’s rates were below the national average prior to 2008, we are now well above them, with average price hikes from 20-30%. What other businesses in the Clare region have had the luxury of hiking their rates to such stratospheric levels? More than 10,700 MI electric customers have signed contracts to get their electricity from competitive suppliers but are forced by this 2008 law to stay with Consumers Energy and DTE. If you think this is wrong, it’s critical you let your local legislator(s) know. The 10% cap on electric competition needs to go, but it won’t happen without public outcry. It’s easy to contact them; go to http://www.ECNmichigan.com. If you think the electric monopoly needs to go, please consider joining Energy Choice Now, a MI-based coalition of over 1200 MI businesses, associations and suppliers and lend your name to this critical public policy issue — that directly affects your pocketbook. We need more money into jobs, job creation, business expansion, better schools and economic gardening … and less into turning on the light switch.
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